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	21-Aug-12 TestFunda Home | Sign up for Newsletters | Feedback Daily Wordlist Vocabulary Flashcards | Vocabulary Test | Previous Wordlists genuflect [ JEN-yoo'-flekt ]   [ verb ]   MEANING :   1. to bend the knee or touch one knee to the floor in reverence or worship 2. to show servitude; be obedient   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The arrival of the king made people genuflect.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   They genuflect toward a 17th-century painting of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus, said to be the only flammable object to survive a major fire in 1731. Los Angeles Times, Zagreb, Croatia: Europe's new star, By Robert Cross, Chicago Tribune Staff Reporter, May 23, 2007   coquette [ koh-KET ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   a woman who is flirtatious   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Her reputation for being a coquette did not endear her to her women colleagues.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   She's flirtatious in her outrage: a stand-up coquette. CNN, 'Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic', Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman   dawdle [ DAWD-l ]   [ intransitive verb, transitive verb ]   MEANING :   1. (intr. v.)to idle away; to waste time 2. (intr. v.)to loiter or saunter; to move slowly 3. (tr.v.) to spend fruitlessly; trifle away   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   During adolescence, it would be unwise to dawdle away one's time on trivial pursuits.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   The scenery is great, the wildlife fantastic. However the proper way to appreciate it is not to dawdle along at 20mph (especially on 'A' roads, or around Loch Ness), find a place to stop and enjoy it properly. BBC, Countryside Etiquette, 29th August 2003   leviathan [ li-VAHY-uh'-thuh' n ]   [ noun, adjective ]   MEANING :   1. (n.) an unusually gigantic water beast mentioned in the Bible 2. (n.) anything that is unusually large of its kind 3. (adj.) gigantic   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   Our small boat began to sway and pitch violently from the waves generated by the leviathan oil tanker.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   IBM, needless to say, isn't the Big Blue of my early years. It is no longer the arrogant leviathan that would crush you like a bug for competing with it, or, in my case, writing nasty things about it. ABC News, Silicon Insider: The Laptop Lament, B U R L I N G A M E, Calif., April 24 2008   ennui [ ahn-WEE, AHN-wee; Fr. ahn*-NWEE ]   [ noun ]   MEANING :   dissatisfaction or weariness caused due to boredom   USAGE EXAMPLE 1 :   The endless speech- replete with cliched platitudes- made by the visiting Head of State produced an unbearable ennui among the audience.   USAGE EXAMPLE 2 :   When he shakes off his air of lethargic, suburban ennui, he lets an enormous passionate energy shine through, and it brightens up the whole R.E.M. experience. BBC, R.E.M Reckoning, Review by Al Spicer, 10 March 2008   Spelled Pronunciation Key Stress marks: [ CAPS ] indicates the primary stressed syllable, as in newspaper [NOOZ-pey-per ] and information [ in-fer-MEY-shuh' n ] CONSONANTS [b] boy, baby, rob [d] do, ladder, bed [f] food, offer, safe [g] get, bigger, dog [h] happy, ahead [j] jump, budget, age [k] can, speaker, stick [l] let, follow, still [m] make, summer, time [n] no, dinner, thin [ng] singer, think, long [p] put, apple, cup [r] run, marry, far, store [s] sit, city, passing, face [sh] she, station, push [t] top, better, cat [ch] church, watching, nature, witch [th] thirsty, nothing, math [th'] this, mother, breathe [v] very, seven, love [w] wear, away [hw] where, somewhat [y] yes, onion [z] zoo, easy, buzz [zh] measure, television, beige   VOWELS [a] apple, can, hat [ey] aid, hate, day [ah] arm, father, aha [air] air, careful, wear [aw] all, or, talk, lost, saw [e] ever, head, get [ee] eat, see, need [eer] ear, hero, beer [er] teacher, afterward, murderer [i] it, big, finishes [ahy] I, ice, hide, deny [o] odd, hot, woffle [oh] owe, road, below [oo] ooze, food, soup, sue [oo'] good, book, put [oi] oil, choice, toy [ou] out, loud, how [uh] up, mother, mud [uh'] about, animal, problem, circus [ur] early, bird, stirring   FOREIGN SOUNDS [a*] Fr. ami [kh*] Scot. loch, Ger. ach or ich [œ] Fr. feu, Ger. schön [r*] Fr. au revoir, Yiddish rebbe [uh*] Fr. oeuvre [y*] Fr. tu, Ger. über   SAMPLE NASALIZED VOWELS [an*] Fr. bien [ahn*] Fr. croissant [awn*] Fr. bon [œn*] Fr. parfum [in*] Port. 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